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JOURNAL OF LAW AND COURTS
(ISSN   2164-6570)

Journal of Law and Courts (ISSN 2164-6570)  is published two times a year in Spring and Fall by The University
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Brandon  Bartels                    Leslie Goldstein                    Suzanna  Sherry
George Washington  University       University of Delaware              Vanderbilt University

Pamela  Brandwein                   Stacia Haynie                       Torben  Spaak
University of Michigan              Louisiana State University          Stockholm  University

Keith Bybee                         Ran  Hirschl                        Georg Vanberg
Syracuse University                 University of Toronto               Duke  University

Javier Couso                        Jeffrey Lax                         Katarina Zajc
Universidad Diego Portales, Chile   Columbia  University                University of Ljubljana

Charles Epp                         Lynn  Mather
University of Kansas                University at Buffalo, SUNY

Julio Rios Figueroa                 Julie Novkov
CIDE,  Mexico City                  University at Albany, SUNY



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